does AOL IP ip address mean fraud?

[ericli]

I have been in eComm for 10 years. My experience with AOL ip address is firm:

all of AOL proxy IP addresses mean fraud and there is only very very few exceptions (less than 0.1% is non-fraud).

Do you have the same experience? All of buyers with AOL proxy IP address (such as 172.x.x.x and 205.x.x.x) have been automatically blocked.

[piatkow]

I could understand this in the days when AOL sent out connection disks as junk mail and had them included with the Sunday newspapers. Is this based on recent or historic experience?

I can't comment directly as my own ecommerce experience has been B2B in a very tightly knit niche area. Slow payers and one guy going bankrupt, but never direct fraud.

[Wlauzon]

I have never noticed that AOL addresses are any worse than any other. About the only one we have problems with is gmail addresses.

[ytswy]

The only problem I've noticed with AOL users is they tend to fall into the "less gifted" group when it comes to technology, and can be a support headache :)

[sleepy_eye]

We haven't had more fraud with AOL ips than others.
But usually if there's a silly problem with an order, its got an AOL email on it.